2. paoMDOTtTS. 373 



figured by Cdvier in the skull being shorter and broader, as men- 

 tioned above. 



•** Scales horn-coloured, pale; of the hack, in eleven or thirteen longitu- 

 dinal series. Tail as long as the body. Ears with only a slightly raised 

 edge, without any distinct cimch. Phatages. 



3. Fholidotus indicns. 



Pale brown ; scales striated at the base ; tail more slender than 

 the body, tapering to the end, as long as the body without the head j 

 ears not prominent. 



" Varies in the width of the tail and the curvature of the claw."— 

 ^ndevaHl. 



Manis pentadactyla, Idnn. S. N. i. p. 61 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 



p. 285 (partly) ; Gray, List Mam. B. M. p. 188 ; Turner, P, Z. S. 



1851, p. 219. 

 Manis laticauda, HUger ; Sundevall, I, c. p. 259. 

 Manis macroura, Desm. Mamm. p. 376. 

 Manis brevicaudata, Tiedem. Zool. i. p. 497. 

 Manis brachyura, Erxl. Syst. p. 98. 



Manis crassicaudata, (fray in Griff. A. K. ; Rapp, Bdent. p. 10. 

 Pholidotus indicus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 368. 

 Broad-tailed Mauis, Penn. 

 Pangolin a courte queue, Cwo. Oss. li^ess. v. t. 8 (skeleton). 



Hab. Asia — India : Bengal, Madras, Pondicherry, Assam. 



The skull in Cuvier's figures (Oss. Foss. v. t. 8. f. 2-4) is much 

 more slender and less ventricose behind than the skulls of M. Dal- 

 mannii in the British Museum. The face is represented as being 

 about two-fifths the entire length of the head ; and the nasal bones 

 are narrower and longer. , 



In a foetus in spirit in the British Museum, the eyelids are soft, 

 the ears are only fringed with a slightly raised edge, and there are a 

 few bristles projecting between the scales of the back. 



Mr. MacClelland describes the Jlfam's brachyura of Assam as 

 having fifteen longitudinal series of scales, with bristles in pairs 

 passing out between the scales. The lower part of the head and 

 body and inside of the legs covered with coarse white hairs (Proc. 

 Zool. Soo. 1839, p. 153). Is this M. Dalmannii? 



4. Pholidotus gigauteus. (Ipi.) B.M. 



Pale brown ; scales striated at the base ; tail as long as the body, 

 tapering to the end. Body and head 30, tail 25 inches. 



Manis gigantea, lUiger, A/cad. Berl. 1811, pp. 78, 84, 1815. 



Pholidotus africanus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 368, t. 17. 



Ipi (Pholidotus africanus), Du Chaillu, Jour. Ashangoland, p. 43, t. 



Hab. "West Africa, Eiver Niger (Dr. B. Baikie) ; Guinea (Illiger) ; 

 Fernand, Vaz (Du Chaillu) ; Cape-Coast Castle (B.M.). 



Very like P. indicus; but the scales are larger, and the tail is 



